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Welcome to ANI In The Air, Wondrous Wednesday, where I talk about something wondrous.
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So the theme of the week is boredom, and sort of the talk about Tuesday that I did was about
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the usefulness of boredom, essentially.
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And so that seems to suggest something that I would have talked about on Wondrous Wednesday.
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So I'm going to try something really even much more difficult to talk about, which is
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being in the state of wonder while bored.
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This definitely gets on the border of the line with meditation, and so maybe that's
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just what this is, but I'm going to try to explore it.
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So you're bored.
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You're currently in a state of boredom.
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You're listening to my voice, and you are so bored.
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So bored.
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What does that mean?
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That means your brain is at rest.
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It wants something more because the brain is an active organ, it wants to flex that
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muscle, and instead there's nothing to flex around, there's nothing to grasp, right?
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That could be thought of as boredom.
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So you are bored right now.
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But notice in that boredom the quietness, the solitude.
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If you're outside like I am on a beautiful, windy, well slightly windy day, you're going
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to hear the breeze, you're going to hear the birds and the cicadas, you're going to feel
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that gentle touch of the wind on you, just blowing.
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You're going to see the shadow of the tree moving back and forth, everything waving,
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the grass being lit up in the sun, the clover sprinkled amongst the green, cicadas buzzing
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around, flying around, possibly landing on you.
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Okay, that might not be boring, but you see all this thing, you are in the moment.
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Boredom has led you to being present.
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That is the wonder of boredom, to be fully in the moment.
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You look at, say, a bench, an old wooden bench, and you notice the gradations, the lines,
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the swirls, the darkness.
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You just see it all.
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It doesn't mean anything, but you're just observing.
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You are taking it in.
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That is the beauty and the wonder of boredom, right there.
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You're hearing my voice, talking about this, you feel relaxed, nothing, nothing matters
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right now.
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You simply be, you simply exist right here, right now, in this moment.
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You can feel yourself sitting, standing, whatever you're doing.
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That is what you're doing.
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That is your existence.
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That's all there is.
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There is nothing else.
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Just for this one moment in time, you are completely relaxed.
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You are in a zone of tranquility.
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Your mind is not buzzing, is not thinking.
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You don't have words on the tip of your tongue.
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You are just experiencing and expressing your existence in this universe, in this moment,
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in this location, right here, right now, with the wind blowing through your hair.
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Even if you have short hair like I do, like really tiny little fibers of hair just blowing
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through the hair, and you just feel like you're just those trees in the distance swaying back
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and forth.
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All the details that you see right now that no one else is seeing, no one else will ever
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see, but you see these particular specific moments.
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That is the wonder of boredom.
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That is what boredom gives you.
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That is the power of boredom in the moment, right now, allowing you to fully exist like
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you so rarely do anywhere else, anytime else.
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All of the other emotions are just not there.
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You are fully gone and everywhere and just here.
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That my friends is the wonder of boredom.
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I will be seeing you when I see you, whether or not I am bored or not, I am relaxed.